Correspondence on the I.N.T. Committee, 1955-07-04 - 1967-09-15
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the Isaac Newton Telescope Committee, including correspondence between Sir Richard Woolley at the Commonwealth Observatory, Mount Stromlo, and H. Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal; minutes of various meetings of the committee; and monthly financial/progress reports. There is also correspondence with P.M.S. Blackett of the Imperial College of Science and Technology; Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Rector of Cairo University; the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty; Dirk Brouwer of the Yale University Observatory, New Haven, Connecticut; and R.O. Redman of The Observatories, Cambridge.
Dates
- Creation: 1955-07-04 - 1967-09-15
Creator
- From the Series: Woolley, Richard van der Reit, Sir, 1906 - 1986 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
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Extent
1 bundle(s) (1 bundle)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
50.25
Finding aid date
2006-06-30 08:55:25+00:00
Subject
- Jones, Harold Spencer, Sir, 1890 - 1960 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Redman, Roderick Oliver, 1905 - 1975 (physicist) (Person)
- Admiralty (Organization)
- Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co Ltd (Organization)
- Brouwer, Dirk, 1902 - 1966 (astronomer and geophysicist) (Person)
- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, 1897 - 1974 (Baron Blackett, physicist) (Person)
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